These pics were shot with a wide angle lens, so there's a bit of fun-house effect going on. The ceilings aren't vaulted, and the rooms aren't nearly as long as the camera makes them look. Sorry for any pics which are incorrectly oriented or weirdly sized. Photobucket is giving me a hard time with that today! (Pics and videos of of the house being set on the foundation are in their own threads.)

Here's the video of the front half getting hauled up by the crane. (Also in high def for the patient.) The back half and inside pics are in separate posts. (I missed the roof raising. I had to go home and get lunch and recharge my camera battery a little bit.)

Here's a video of the back half of my house flying through the air. If you have the patience to let it load, you can watch it in hi-def. I had been mentally preparing myself for the sight of a flying house, but I never thought of what it might sound like! Let's just say I was holding my breath and cringing the entire time! (I'm posting the adventures of the front half and pics of the inside in separate posts, because this is already pic heavy.)

does anyone have maps which predict where the future temperate zones will be, and where rain will fall and food can be grown? Is it even possible to predict such things in correlation to rise in temperature and sea levels, or are there too many other variables to be able to know? http://flood.firetree.net /

I wasn't sure about posting this after reading the HGTV house show thread. (I'm a total addict!) But if it helps, our first/current home is a trailer, and I am way, way past my mid-20s. (And my late parents made this possible for us. Thanks Mom and Dad, for this last amazing gift!)

I'm torn on what I am most excited about. All the closets after living so long without hardly any? A nice big kitchen with a pantry? The laundry room which will have front loader washer/dryer? Master bath? All the space in general? (This new place is a little more than twice as big as the trailer.) Husband is thrilled to have an office for working at home finally (He's currently using part of the shed as an office out back,) and a nice big basement where he can have a shop. (Well, two shops. A wood shop and a malt shop themed game room.) Sons are looking forward to having their own rooms at long last, and the game room in the basement. They've always wanted a ping pong table, and I am all in favor of them playing a game that doesn't involve some sort of computer screen.

• According to a 2001 HUD report, 1.14 million affordable housing units were lost between 1997 and 1999. There are many reasons for this loss, but among other causes, when HUD privatized the building of new units, the contracts stipulated that, at the end of the 20-year contract, the owner could opt to convert the units from subsidized to market value. As each development reaches this 20-year mark, many units are lost to conversion from low-income to market. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-lakof...

• During the negotiations to demolish the former New Orleans St. Thomas Housing Project in 2002, developers started out promising that 50% of the units would be affordable. But in the end only 9% were affordable one study showed. http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/news...

• In many cities, there are no longer even waiting lists for subsidized housing. In Atlanta, although there were no vacancies available, an announcement was made that they would open a waiting list for one day. Thirty thousands people arrived to apply, some in line for days. 15K applications were handed out, and 62 people were taken to the hospital suffering from heat stroke. http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/housing-cr...

Fact: More and more Americans are relying on social services such as WIC, Medicaid, Food Stamps, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.

Fact: Congress is poised to slash funding to all of these services, leaving those 43 million people with nowhere to turn. There is no charity, no church, possessing the wherewithal to help every single person in need.

Fact: You have the right to contact your representatives and tell them how you want your government to work! Let them know that it is not ok to abandon the most vulnerable members of our society!

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